Jamie Lawson Quotes
I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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I would like to direct.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.
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I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love, love to work with Barbra Streisand. I'm reaching, because why not? You don't know what's going to happen in this life.
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I'm a sports guy. Football, God, I flip out.
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I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.
